Bob Knight was never an easy man. He annoyed and enraged people on a regular basis and seemed to enjoy it.
That was the general public image of The General, as Dick Vitale called Knight, for decades. Will it change any after his death?
It might.
Knight, who passed away Wednesday, has a list of transgressions that are hard to forget. There’s a sort of shorthand: Puerto Rico. The chair. Neil Reed. Zero tolerance.
Puerto Rico refers to a conflict he had with a police officer while coaching with Team USA. The chair was tossed in a rivalry game with Purdue.